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How to Add Podcast to your WordPress Blog

Podcast is a combination of iPod and broadcasting. A podcast is a special feed that includes an audio file instead of just text, and people use iTunes, Juice, or some other podcasting clients to collect (and listen to) the episodes. If you want to create your own podcast, you can do so easily with WordPress, which has a built-in basic podcast support.

Have you ever considered creating your own podcast? It’s like having your own radio show and instead of reading your posts at their computers, your subscribers can listen through their headphones at any time.
Adding a podcast to your WordPress blog is outrageously easy. While generating your blog’s RSS feeds, WordPress automatically adds an tag <enclosure>(available in RSS 2.0) if a music file is linked within that post, and this tag is read by podcast clients. Therefore, all you have to do is make a post; WordPress will do the rest for you.

How to podcast?

For basic podcasting, there are just two steps you have to take:
1. Record.
2. Post.

Record yourself

You can record your voice, a conversation, music, or any other sound you’d like to podcast using any commercial or free software and save it as an MP3 file.
Some good free software to consider using are as follows:

1. Audacity

Audacity

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

2. Levelator

The-Levelator

Do you believe in magic? You will after using The Levelator® to enhance your podcast. And you’ll be amazed that it’s free, now even for commercial use.

3. WavePad Sound Editor

WavePad-Sound-Editor

Professional audio editing software for PC & Mac
This sound editing software is a full featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac OS X. It lets you record and edit music, voice and other audio recordings.

4. Sound Studio

Sound-Studio

Make a post

Now that you’ve created an MP3 file and it’s sitting on your computer, you’re ready to make a WordPress post that will be the home for the first episode of your podcast. Insert Your MP3 file in particular post and Make any other changes or additions you want to make to your post, publish the post, and you’re done.
That’s it. Your website’s RSS 2.0 feed and its Atom Feed can now be used by podcast clients to pick up your podcast.

Podcasting plugins

We just learned that although you can easily produce a podcast using WordPress’s built-in features, you may decide to use podcasting plugins to enhance your podcast.

1. PodPress

PodPress

podPress adds tons of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.

2. Podcasting

Podcasting

Another good general podcasting plugin is Podcasting (a confusing name). It is officially compatible up to the latest version of WordPress and offers many of the same features as PodPress.

3. iPodCatter

iPodCatter
If you want to have your podcast listed in the iTunes podcast directory, take a look at iPodCatter. It helps users create a valid feed for the iTunes podcast directory and specify the itunes:duration and itunes:explicit tags on a per-episode basis.

Find more podcasting plugins on the WordPress website.

Host audio files for free

Archive-org
If you’ll run out of space on your own server, you can use archive.org, which will host your audio files free of cost.

If you face any problem inserting your podcast into you post, Tom Raftery proposes a good solution on his blog.
Now enjoy your podcast in your WordPress post.

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User Comments


  1. John Hoff - WP Blog Host
    December 30, 2009

    Broken down nicely. I use SoundForge Audio Studio 9 for recording audio files and am getting close to turning my video tutorials blog into an actual podcast as well.

    Thanks for the info.



  2. Find People By Name Free
    January 9, 2010

    I found this video about quite different than ones that I found before. Do you have any more? Thanks



  3. Janet Wyoming
    January 22, 2010

    blogging with add podcast is very important ;)



  4. Tina
    January 26, 2010

    can that be done on wp.com blogs? i want to add audio to my posts…



  5. shipping
    February 17, 2010

    Hello! Your post () does so well that I would like to translate it into French, publish on my french blog and link to you. You have something against it? Regards


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